On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
> I noticed that ~/.texlive2008, unlike ~.texlive2007, is (correctly)
> owned by the user. There seems to be at least one unintended
> consequence of this change. Eddie Kphler's otftotfm, which converts
> otf fonts to a form usable to pdftex, writes the fonts, the vf, enc,
> map and tfm files to the first writable entry in $TEXMF, which by
> default is now a subdirectory of ~/.texlive2008. Given the temporary
> nature of this directory, it would seem wise to move those files to
> either texmf-local or ~/Library/texmf.
>> Note that this affects otfinst.py, which is frequently used as a
> front end to otftotfm.
>> Michael
Howdy,
Why do you think that directory is temporary?
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)